Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 12 May 2008
Song of the Week #98
by Ervin Drake
When I was seventeen
It Was A Very Good Year...
He had more very good years than most of us, and they've continued in the last ten, too. Not all icons survive death: I think of Leonard Bernstein or Bob Fosse, both at their...
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Steyn on People
Monday, 28 April 2008
Michelle, ma belle: these are words that go together well. She looks fabulous, like a presidential spouse out of some dream movie – glossy hair, triple strand of pearls, vaguely retro suits that subtly remind you she’d be the most glamorous First Lady since Jackie Kennedy.
Michelle, “fear”, “cynicism”, “corporate America”,...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Oskar Schindler was born one hundred years ago - on April 28th 1908 in Zwittau, then part of the Habsburg Empire, now in the Czech Republic. He prospered as a German industrialist, and during the war saved some 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust. In death he became a famous name as the eponymous hero...
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Steyn on Books
Friday, 18 April 2008
In The Village Voice the other week, the playwright David Mamet recently outed himself as a liberal apostate and revealed that he's begun reading conservative types like Milton Friedman and Paul Johnson. If he's wondering what he's in for a year or two down the line, here's how Newsweek's Jonathan...
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